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Agendas tend to drain the life out of relationships.

Julia Cameron

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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Film Director
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Libertyville
Illinois
Drain
Drains
Agendas
Relationships
Tend
Life

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